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President himself simultaneously pressuring ukraine that they need to give him these investigations he wants to help him for 2020. the president himself questioning the aid to ukraine, ordering the aid to ukraine, thats in writing now we now know. second at least two officials at the white house resigned over the president putting this hold on military aid to ukraine. third, multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy -- the guy they were tellin...

The committees had apparently asked omb for these documents in september, all related to the withholding of the military aid for ukraine. the agency ignored the committees october deadline to produce those documents, but in a surprise twist today, hello, the house budget committee announced actually it has started receiving some of those documents. now, the committee is not releasing those raw documents to show the public at this time, but they did share a summary of the findings from these docu...

Question, what what do you know about that? answer, this person in the legal office expressed to me concerns about actions vis-a-vis the impoundment control act. question, in the context of the ukraine security assistance and the hold? >> answer, yes, i am aware of this persons frustrations in that area, yes. question, okay, so this person that worked at omb legal expressed concerns about the hold on ukraine security assistance and resigned from omb. did this person at omb legal tell you they we...

Described here, the president expressing concern, the president withholding the order of the aid, the advice from career officials that might be illegal, those career officials being replaced by the guy who they told this was going to by illegal, it appears not only was that documented but some of those documents have made it to congress. not to the impeachment committee but to these other committees. okay. the committee notes ominously at the end of its summary, quote, ombs documentation to dat...

Is there some process we should understand in terms of how and whether these documents could be publicly -- made publicly available and whether they could be provided to the impeachment inquiry which now seem tuesday be moving over to the folks in judiciary. >> that will be a decision the two chairs of the committees will make. but i do think ultimately they will be because the information were receiving is consistent with everything else weve been hearing from the witnesses that have appeared b...

>> its a really crazy thing happening on the southern border. thank you for sharing that reporting with us. that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. so we do not know their names but as of tonight we do know that two white house officials, two employees of the white house office of management and budget apparently resigned their jobs over the ukraine scandal for which president trump is now facing impeachment. we of course had two weeks of public hearings fro...

They are going to start convening public hearings of their own on the legal and constitutional basis for these impeachment proceedings against the president. but even as the process is moving forward in that way, right? with the scheduled public hearings for the intelligence committee wrapped and the intelligence committee writing up their report now on what their investigation determined, theyre planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. so judiciary is preparing to receive that rep...

Storyline around the impeachment and other public reporting weve got around the impeachment, we can see how germane they are. is there some process we should understand in terms of how and whether these documents could be publicly -- made publicly available and whether they could be provided to the impeachment inquiry which now seems to be moving over to the folks in judiciary. >> that will be a decision the two chairs of the committees will make. but i do think ultimately they will be because t...

Part of this coming up later in the show tonight. were getting advice from somebody who among other things was a key member of the special counsels team among prosecutors working for robert mueller. that is still to come tonight. this new news were learning tonight is that the leverage part of this scandal, the part where president trump didnt just demand that ukraine help him with these investigations, he leveraged u.s. policy toward ukraine to try and force them to do it, he put a hold on ukra...

At least two of the officials resigned. third, multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy that -- the guy they were telling to sign the paperwork to implement the hold. hes one of the people who told them, hey, this might be an illegal thing youre asking me to do. i think we should bring this to the lawyers. in response, that guy was replaced by a trump appointee who had said this was the presidents wish, who had ordered it done, and who had be...